Tailored sizes of constrictive external vein meshes for coronary artery bypass surgery

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 9301-9309

  Franz, Thomas ^a   Human, Paul ^a   Dobner, Stephan ^a   Reddy, B Daya ^b   Black, Melanie ^a   Ilsley, Helen ^a   Wolf, Michael F ^c   Bezuidenhout, Deon ^a   Moodley, Lovendran ^a   Zilla, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; External support; Luminal constriction; Luminal folding; Vein grafts

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXTERNAL SUPPORT; LUMINAL CONSTRICTION; LUMINAL FOLDING; VEIN GRAFTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA HANDLING; HEART; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GRAFTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE PARTITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SHEAR STRESS; VENOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL MESH; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 77957938481     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.08.054     Document Type: Article

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